The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-07-14
The Prestdent's Course Approved
by Nearly livery One.

The New Yolk Times of Friday
morning prints number of inter
views on the subject of the Presidents
letter. The Hon. Carl Schurz express
himself as follows:
sit is an entirely proper letter. Such
letter might have been expected from
the President. Il seems as if there
was q design on the part of some per
sons to divert the Grand Army from
the purpose for which it was organized
and to- turn it into q partisan body.
EVERYTHING insulting to the President
| that has been issued from Grand Army
quarters strengthens the indication
The responsibility, / suppose, rests
| with the pension agents and attorneys
at Washington, who have left nothing
undone that they could think of to stir
up feeling against the President since
his veto of the dependent pension bill.
| The Presidents words will disarm his
critics and rebound to his own credit"
George William Curtis said:
| II think it q most admirable letter.
| 1t is written in that straightforward,
| manly fashion characteristic of Presi
dent Cleveland, and, in my opinion,
| it will strengthen the feeling for the
President all over the Union" so
1 General John Newton said:
1.-The Presidents letter is able, con
scientiOus and manly. Unless the
Grand Army of the Republic rises in
| its might and repudiates The action of
such men rs TuttIe and Fairchild, this
action will ruin i"
General W. w. Averill said:
"The letter is able and wise. He
could net have gone to st. Louis under
| the circumstances, and his statement
of his position in the matter s. admi
rable. The Grand Army can only do
its order harm by carrying ON such a
| partisan war;
| Mark ID. WILDER, the head of the
Grand Army in Brooklyn, and chair,
man Of its memorial committee, said ::
| 1T was with great regret that l
read the Presidents letter. As mem
| Der of the @. A. r. l am thoroughly
| disgusted with the way some of its
leaders have acted lately. For few
| Grand Army men to insult him and
| to thea en- him with further degrada-
tion in case he visited the city, is out
/ rageous. From the shameful speech
of Fairchild to this IL at gratr:tous in
suit, the Grand Army hss acted in a
way calculated to reflect anything but
credit upon its members"
General Daniel E. Sickles expressed
himself very freely In its favor saying:
/ 81 think the President did perfectly
right. It is. really what / expected
after the illmannered actions of those
few blackguards who have been doing
all this blowing about his coming to
st. Louis. I am sorry, and am CON
fident the majority of the Grand Army
men are sorry, that the President has
felt constrained to withdraw his ac-
ceptance."
The Times. always dignified and
impartial in its criticisms. says:
1.-The dignitied and patriotic letter
of the President Withdrawing his ac
ceptance of the invitation to visit st.
i Louis during the encampment there
of the Grand Army of the Republic,
is calculated to make the organization
ashamed of the conduct of some of its
conspicuous members. While he
speaks of the organization with the
|, utmost respect, and refuses to believe
J that it is responsible for the unworthy
, utterances that have induced him to
reconsider his intention of visiting st.
Louis, it is to be feared that the entire
incident will tend to lower the Grand
Army in the esteem and respect of the
country at large 1t will not hurt the
, President, but there is danger that ii
will hurt an organization made up oi
the citizeps whom the people have
, every reason and every desire to hon.
orr The reasons given by Mr.. Cleve'